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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros (securityaffairs.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's why you need to rock and roll

(Arch btw.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Try having unattended-upgrades with a rolling distro.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Man, I do this all the time. snapper and grub-btrfs has enabled all kinds of amazing things. I'm so close to just doing:

$ sudo crontab -l
* * 3 * * pacman -Syu --no-confirm

I've got separate offline backups and rescue disks, but I'm pretty confident that grub-btrfs will let me recover pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

grub-btrfs with timeshift didn't helped me in my upgrade from fedora 38 to 39, when i rolled back with grub-btrfs, what loaded was weird mix of 38 and 39, that didn't even let me browse my filesystem, got to disassemble laptop, get out ssd, use it as external, and even then half of the ssd was locked, ssd was new and chmod didn't helped, even from live usb, had to copy files with testdisk and dd zero's on whole disk for it to work again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't want unattended upgrades >:/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just don't upgrade for a while and you become debian

It's not like windows forcing you to reboot every Tuesday so Edge can come back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

you shouldn't be throwing boots through your windows